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Want to Understand America? Study the Gettysburg Address
Season 5 Episode 46
America is, at its core, a nation founded on ideas, and those ideas have faced criticism, revision, and review over the centuries. Abraham Lincoln, w…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Entitlement Reform: A Problem We Can No Longer Avoid
Season 5 Episode 45
What are entitlements? How did they come to be so entrenched in American politics and economics? Why is it that people say that Social Security is go…
7 months ago
Inside Camp David - The Private World of the Presidential Retreat
Season 5 Episode 44
Jeff is joined this week by Rear Admiral Mike Giorgione (ret.), former commander of Camp David during the Clinton and Bush administrations, to discus…
7 months, 1 week ago
Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist
Season 5 Episode 43
Alexander Hamilton didn’t get his due until a Hip-Hip musical brought him to the public eye, over 200 years after his death. But what did he contribu…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
What Can We Learn from Herbert Hoover?
Season 5 Episode 42
Think Herbert Hoover was just a failed Great Depression president? Think again. Historian George Nash reveals the shocking truth about one of America…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Taking Manhattan - The Creation of New York
Season 5 Episode 41
Taking Manhattan, available on Amazon - https://a.co/d/eQTNGWV https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/
Host: Jeff Sikkenga
Executive Producer: Jeremy…
8 months ago
The Pathfinder and the President: John C. Fremont, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
Season 5 Episode 40
In August 1861, General John C. Fremont—once America's most famous explorer and the Republican Party's first presidential nominee—issued an unauthori…
8 months, 1 week ago
Congress: What It Was Meant to Be and What It's Become5
Season 5 Episode 39
What was the original purpose of Congress? What powers did the Founders give it to fulfill that purpose? How does that compare to the institution we …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Constitutional Convention was a Four-Act Drama
Season 5 Episode 38
Discover how 55 delegates created the U.S. Constitution in just 88 days during the summer of 1787. Constitutional scholar Gordon Lloyd breaks down th…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The American Way of War
Season 5 Episode 37
This episode explores James Ellman's book "Seeds of Victory: Defeat, Triumph, and the American Way of War" with host Jeff Sikkenga from the Ashbrook …
9 months ago